PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19332, 9 June 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

itROK OUR OWH CORMSPOXDEXT.) LONDON, May 5. A small private luncheon of the Empire Parliamentary Association was held at the House of Commons on May 3rd to enable the Rt. Hon. L. S. Amery, M.P. (chairman, United Kingdom Branch of the Association), and Mrs Amery, to meet the New Zealand members of Parliament now in London. Amongst those present were:— The Hon. G. J. Anderson, M.P. (Minister for Labour, New Zealand), the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden, M.P.; the Hon. T. M. Wilford, M.P. (ex-Minister for Justice, New Zealand) and Mrs Wilford, Sir Robert Hamilton, M.P., and Lady Hamilton; the Hon. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, G.C.M.G., M.L.C.; the Lord Loch, C.8., C.M.G., D.5.0., M.V.0., the Lady Loch, and the Hon. Maysie Loch; the Hon. Sir William Hall-Jones, K.C.M.G.. M.L.C; Mr J. S. Wardlf*-Milne, M.P., and Mrs Wardlaw-Milne; Colonel the Hon. W E. Collins. C.M.G., M.L.C, and Mrs Collins: Mr H. Livingstone Tapley, MP. and Sir Howard d'Egville, K.BJD. (secretary, Kingdom Branch of the Association). The Hon. G. J. Anderson and Mrs Anderson arrived in London a week ago. Since then they have obtained comfortable quarters in the Bloomsbury district. Mr Anderson has consulted a medical specialist, who has advised him that he must take things verv quietly. Dr A. W. Hill, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is home again. New Zealand struck hiin as "certainly one of the - cleanest and tidiest countries I have seen. It is not a country in which people go about dropping "bits of paper and litter. All the gardens are beautifully planted in flowers, and although some of them are not fenced, they are exquisitely tidy and well cared for." These remarks were made to a representn + '>e j of the "Evening News." I Major and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Guy Clifford Stubbs, D.5.0., Sufiolis Regiment, p.s.c, from Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Northern Command, has been appointed Director of Art, Royal Military College of Australia, from March 31st, 1928, vice Major (local Lieut.-Colonel) F. HFarebrother, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army, p.s.c. Lieut.Colonel Stubbs joined the Suffolk Regiment as a 2nd-Lieutennnt on October 10th, 1903, and has served as a battalion adjutant and officer of a company of Gentlemen Cadets, Royal. Military College,' Sandhurst. He is also a graduate of the Staff College, During the Great War he served n France and Belgium and was a brigade commander with the temporarv rank of Brigade-Goneral. He was wounded three times, four times men tioned in dispatches, and the London Gazette, and awarded the brevets ot Major and Lieut.-Colonel, the Bntisu War Medal, Victory Medal, and Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, -with Clasp. . Captain E. McO. W. Lawrie, D.5.0., R.N., in-command of H.M.S. Comus, Second Cruiser Squadron, has beerr relieved by Captain H. R. Sawbridge, 0.8.E.. who was on the staff of Ad-miral-of-the-Fleet Lord Jellicoe during 1919 on the occasion of the tour of the Dominions in H.M.S. New Zealand. Captain Sawbridge was promoted in June, 1924, but so far has had only a y,ear's seagoing service.in the rank, ■when he commanded the Champion, gunnery firing arid torpedo experiment ship from. November, 1926, to November, 1927. -The greater part of the, war be was torpedo officer of the battle-, ship Emperor. of■ India in the Grand, Fleet, and "was then selected for duty in the Anti-Submarine Division at the Admiralty. From 1921 to 1924 Captain Sawbridge had command of the AntiSubmarine School at Portland-. It is officially announced by the Admiralty . that School Master R. Y. Ba-illie, of the New Zealand Naval Force, has been appointed to H.M.S. Hood, April 30th. Mr G. M. Keys (Christchurch). has been studying educational methods and organisations in Canada, America, and England, in meeting the problem of vocational guidance, especailly as this concerns school systems. It is an endeavour to ©quip himself to carry oub more efficiently this work on his return to New Zealand. Oil June 23rd Mr Keys, will leave by the Oronsay for Australia as Welfare Superintendent on •board, an appointment which he. obtained through the "Australian Government. Before departure he hopes to see Paris and Brussels* Mr Ernest Haydon, son of the late Mr Joseph Haydon,"of Prebbleton, ' Canterbury, is returning to New Zealand with his wife and family after many years' absence. After leaving New Zealand Mr Haydon farmed in. the Argentine, but he gave up active work tfiero some four or five years ago and took a place in England. His intention is tc enter upon sheep country on his arrival in the Dominion. Passages have been booked by the Ruapehu, leaving on June 29th. \ The latest recruit for the Melanesian Mission is Mr Arthur Hogger, of Portsmouth. He is at present studying at the Livingstone College and he hopes to leave for New Zealand by the Rej muera on July 6th. Mr Hogger is an engineer who has also had some experience of carpentry, so that it is anticipated he will be a very useful addition to the Mission staff. The late Mr Robert Edward .Stephens, of the Union Bank of Australia, Cornhill, and Christchurch, left estate in England valued at £51,845. ■